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IMS Fellow Per Mykland was among only three people awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship this year in Mathematics or Statistics. These Fellowships are intended for individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship. The Guggenheim Foundation receives approximately 3,000 applications, and makes around 175 awards, each year.
Per Mykland is…
James Robins, Mitchell L. and Robin LaFoley Dong Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard, has received the inaugural Distinguished Lectureship Award from the Center for Causal Inference. Robins accepted the award at the center’s annual Causal Inference Summer Institute, which was hosted by the Rutgers School of Public Health in New…
US House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appointed Philip Stark, University of California at Berkeley, to serve on the United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) Board of Advisors.
Established by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), the EAC Board of Advisors is comprised of 37 individuals who assist the…
Professor Mark Girolami has been elected to the Sir Kirby Laing Professorship of Civil Engineering within the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. In this role he will provide academic leadership for the Centre for Digital Built Britain across the University and more broadly throughout the national and…
ENAR (the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometrics Society), together with IMS and Sections of ASA, holds a meeting each spring. The ENAR 2020 Spring Meeting will be held at the JW Marriott Nashville from March 22–25, 2020. The meeting brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry…